Software
software:anom
Also: A-N-O-M, anonymous
Encrypted-phone platform with a hidden messaging environment and dual-boot-style access mechanism.
Encrypted-phone platform with a hidden messaging environment and dual-boot-style access mechanism.
“It’s called ANOM, kind of short for anonymous”
“Once you get in there, you can send and receive encrypted messages.”
Encrypted communications platform and custom phone system marketed as a secure device for criminal users.
“Then one day, Joseph heard about this new privacy phone called Anom.”
“Anom basically created a ghost contact that was added to every conversation”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Honeypot | Explicit | 105 |
| outgoing | VARIANT_OF | GrapheneOS | Uncertain | 146 |
| outgoing | DEVELOPED_BY | Afgoo | Explicit | 146 |
| outgoing | USES | End-to-end encryption | Explicit | 146 |
| outgoing | AFFECTS | End-to-end encryption | Explicit | 146 |
| outgoing | USES | remote wipe | Explicit | 146 |
| outgoing | USES | Man-in-the-middle | Derived | 146 |
| outgoing | DEVELOPED_BY | Federal Bureau of Investigation | Attributed | 146 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Federal Bureau of Investigation | Attributed | 146 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | Operation Trojan Shield | Explicit | 105 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | Operation Trojan Shield | Explicit | 146 |
ANOM was secretly presented as an encrypted phone while functioning as an FBI honeypot.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 105 Details
“It was a honeypot created entirely by the FBI to snoop, spy, and gather incriminating evidence from criminals.”
Operation Trojan Shield INVOLVES ANOM
Operation Trojan Shield was the FBI operation involving ANOM phones.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 105 Details
“This was dubbed Operation Trojan Shield in the FBI, and their ANOM phones”
ANOM VARIANT_OF GrapheneOS
Joseph says Anom's custom phone operating system was, apparently, a fork of GrapheneOS.
Uncertain Confidence 78% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“Apparently Anom had also removed all GPS functionality”
Joseph says Anom was created by Afgoo, whom he characterizes as a criminal-underground technology expert.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“Anom was created by someone called Afgoo.”
ANOM USES End-to-end encryption
Anom included a communications app that allowed users to send end-to-end encrypted messages.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“It had a secure communications app that allows you to send end-to-end encrypted messages”
ANOM USES remote wipe
Joseph says Anom included phone-wiping functionality.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“Anom had all of those sorts of bells and whistles you would expect; wiping the phone”
ANOM USES Man-in-the-middle
Anom secretly added a ghost contact to every conversation and sent it a copy of each message, functioning as a man-in-the-middle surveillance mechanism.
Derived Confidence 99% · Joseph Cox EP 146 Details
“Anom basically created a ghost contact that was added to every conversation, and it received a blind carbon copy, a BCC, of every message sent across the platform.”
ANOM AFFECTS End-to-end encryption
Although Anom was described as end-to-end encrypted, the messages were also encrypted to Anom's servers through the hidden contact.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 146 Details
“it was also end-to-end encrypted directly to Anom servers.”
Operation Trojan Shield INVOLVES ANOM
Operation Trojan Shield is identified as the worldwide operation involving Anom devices and services.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Randy Grossman EP 146 Details
“This investigation, called Operation Trojan Shield, shined a light into the shadowy industry of hardened encrypted devices.”
ANOM DEVELOPED_BY Federal Bureau of Investigation
The FBI's Acting U.S. Attorney says the FBI developed its own hardened encrypted device company called Anom.
Attributed Confidence 99% · Randy Grossman EP 146 Details
“the FBI developed and operated its own hardened encrypted device company called Anom”
ANOM ASSOCIATED_WITH Federal Bureau of Investigation
According to Randy Grossman, Anom devices were operated by the FBI.
Attributed Confidence 99% · Randy Grossman EP 146 Details
“But the devices were actually operated by the FBI.”